Enucleation of the Eyeball

The Use of a Snare in Enucleation of the Eyeball

The eyeball killer: serial killings with postmortem globe enucleation.

Although serial killings are relatively rare, they can be the cause of a great deal of anxiety while the killer remains at-large. Despite the fact that the motivations for serial killings are typically quite complex, the psychological analysis of a serial killer can provide valuable insight into how and why certain individuals become serial killers. Such knowledge may be instrumental in prevent...

Plastic Spheres for Implantation into Tenon's Capsule in the Frost-lang Type Operation for Enucleation of the Eyeball.

FOR many years I have used perforated solid glass necklace beads of various sizes for the above purpose. They -were perhaps not so suitable as carbonized bone or gold basket spheres but were much easier to obtain than the former and far cheaper than the latter. Most of the other materials used for implantation have greater or lesser disadvantages; e.g., hollow glass spheres -may burst, smooth u...

Luxation of the eyeball.

Luxation of the eyeball in two African patients is reported for its rarity. It followed minor trauma to the face and was reduced in both cases without permanent visual disability.

Torsional motions of the eyeball.

OF the many attempts which have been made in the past to record motions of the eyeball, the most successful investigations have used the corneal reflex method (Lord and Wright, 1948), photographic recording ofthe motions of a beam of light reflected from a plane mirror worked on a contact lens (Ratliff and Riggs, 1950; Ditchburn and Ginsborg, 1953), or photographic recording of the motion of th...